HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081260160
Bassin de Kwango
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Kenge, Popokabaka
Sub-basin area
754,6km²
Upstream area
125 330,2km²
Discharge
1 133,09m³/s
Mean elev.
594m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 518mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
382mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
1 251mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
416cm
Forest
73%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)